I have applied for software engineer role through company careers. I got a call for onsite interview the next week. 1st round is to write C programs, compile and execute. The questions are easy and I could write them easily, but the problem comes here is " before writing the code I need to explain how I am going to write and what I am going to use, Once they agree with the approach( which they have in their mind) they allowed me to write the code. "
The interviewer already prepared well those 2 questions and asked me again and again to get the approach what they learnt as best ( in fact what she/he gone through earlier).
And one more thing , when he asked me to write program, he given the laptop and continuously starring at screen what I am writing (which I felt very discomfort).
Finally I wrote the programs well and expected a call for the next round. But I got an e-mail that I am not fit for Arista. The way they interviewed me was wrong as I believe. Because an interviewer should never expect a job seeker to give answer in what approach they thought. They should observe the candidate whether he/she could to think in different ways to solve the problem. I guess the interviewer was new . Any ways this is very bad experience, which makes the candidate's confidence low. If someone really trying to get an offer from this, they will not get any offer until we face this kind of interviewers.
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
Q1) write a C program to find the missing number in an array of integers which are consecutive and sorted. array = { 1,2,3,5,6}; missing number is '4'
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks en jun 2026
Entrevista
Pros:
Great initial approach – the recruiter thoroughly checked my GitHub profile and projects before the interview, which is very uncommon and shows they do their homework.
Cons:
A major mismatch between the job description ("Software Engineer C++") and the actual interview reality. The technical stage on CoderPad strictly tests bare-metal C98 skills: raw pointers, manual bitwise operations, and packing bytes into 64-bit integers. If you are accustomed to modern C++ (RAII, templates, safe memory management), this will feel like a massive step backward. Additionally, the time expectations for live low-level bit-shifting were unrealistic, to the point where the interviewer started solving the task themselves.
Interview was kind and not stressful, just minor mismatch of naming
Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC)
Entrevista
Pretty good, not too complicated, was comfortable. Mostly LC questions, and was easy enough that you should be able to do it after doing NC150. good luck for the interview!
Starts with online test, then three rounds of technical interviews follow.
Not a lot of discussion, just go straight to the technical challenges which have to be solved in time